Guide to Consumer Electronics Design and Packaging
To get a beautifully designed electronic product safely delivered to your customer, the work must start at the product design phase. Leveraging simulation-driven design, manufacturers are gaining greater insight and control over the development of innovative products, consistent manufacturing processes, and cost-effective, sustainable packaging.
eGuide
GPU-Accelerated Architectural Visualization with Denoising
Photorealistic rendering has become a cornerstone for architectural visualization. Altair’s developers have collaborated with NVIDIA to leverage NVIDIA OptiX™ denoising technology to maximize the speed-up without compromising quality for both exterior and interior rendering scenes. We'll walk through some of the most recent benchmarks of Altair Thea Render™, showing performance gain on NVIDIA RTX hardware.
Conference Presentations
Altair Inspire Studio - Manufacturing Drawings
The latest release of Altair Inspire Studio introduces a powerful set of capabilities to create detailed 2D drawings of complex 3D models and assemblies from multiple perspectives. Functionalities include one-click view creation, section and detail views, linear, angular, radial, and ordinate dimensions, as well as annotations. Once completed, drawings can be easily exported and printed.
Tutorials
Altair Inspire Studio - Design Tables
The latest release of Altair Inspire Studio introduces a new, quick, and easy way to explore design variations. Create design iterations on the fly using a design table. Quickly modify and set thresholds for the various parameters of a model, without having to dig through construction history. The entire model, including the design variables, can be exported to Altair HyperStudy to explore and evaluate different design alternatives.
Tutorials
ATCx CFD 2020 - Solving the Design Paradox
Full evaluation of a design concept requires the definition of many complex details. However, complex geometric details constrain design flexibility. Think of the value of a complex model defined in a way that both details and basic design elements can be changed in seconds. The new suite of parametric free-form surface and solid shape parameters in the 2020 release of Inspire Studio make it possible to explore and analyze broad ranges of a design space. The presentation was part of the ATCx CFD 2020, presented by Paul Stewart, VP, Automotive Aerodynamics Modeling and Visualization at Altair
Conference Presentations
Design components exposed to high cycle loads
Altair HyperLife is an easy to learn fatigue analysis software developed in a solver-neutral framework. It provides a comprehensive set of tools for fatigue analysis, with direct interfaces to all major FEA result files. With an integrated material library, HyperLife enables the prediction of fatigue life under repetitive loads that occur in a variety of industrial applications. In this webinar, you learnt how Altair HyperLife can seamlessly be integrated in a development process from multibody dynamic load extraction over structural topology optimization and redesign to a detailed fatigue analysis. The results are used in Altair Inspire Studio to create high quality renderings for presentations.
Webinars
Solving the Design Paradox
Full evaluation of a design concept requires the definition of many complex details. However, complex geometric details constrain design flexibility.
Conference Presentations
Driving Design from Concept to Manufacturing with Inspire
Altair Inspire has rapidly advanced from a topology optimization tool for designers to a design environment spanning industrial design, structural simulation and optimization, motion analysis and manufacturing simulation.
Conference Presentations
Altair Inspire Studio - Solving the Design Paradox
Altair Inspire Studio is the new solution for designers to create, evaluate and visualize designs faster than ever before. In its latest release, Inspire Studio include advanced morphing of any geometry type.
Use Cases
Altair for Industrial Design Applications
Altair’s industrial design tools allow designers, architects, and digital artists to create, evaluate, and visualize their vision faster than ever before.
Brochures
Inspire Studio How-To Series: Designing a Measuring Cup
In this Inspire Studio How-to Series we'll be designing a measuring cup. Each video shows a different step in the design process.
Tutorials, Use Cases
Inspire Studio: Designing a Measuring Cup, Part 1
In this episode of the Inspire Studio How-to Series, we'll be designing a measuring cup, starting from creating the proper bounding box and importing an image plane for reference.
Use Cases
Inspire Studio: Designing a Measuring Cup, Part 2
In this episode of the Inspire Studio How-to Series, we keep designing a measuring cup, making a few quick edits and learning how to use tools like sweep, patch, trim, and more. Learn more and get a free trial license at altair.com/inspire-studio.
Use Cases
Inspire Studio: Designing a Measuring Cup, Part 3
In this third episode of designing a measuring cup, we focus on shelling the main body, use lattice to quickly morph the entire shape, and create a handle in very few clicks. Learn more and get a free trial license at altair.com/inspire-studio.
Use Cases
Inspire Studio: Designing a Measuring Cup, Part 4
In the fourth episode of designing a measuring cup, we complete the shape adding rounds, seam lines, and getting ready to render the final product. Learn more and get a free trial license at altair.com/inspire-studio.
Use Cases
Inspire Studio: Designing a Measuring Cup, Part 5
In the fifth and last episode of designing a measuring cup series, we finalize the design and create some photorealist renderings of the product, selecting and customizing materials from the library and editing the environment. Learn more and get a free trial license at altair.com/inspire-studio.
Use Cases
Inspire Studio How-to Series: Sweep and Loft
A short clip showing how easy is to create smooth and continuous NURBS sweep and loft surfaces in Inspire Studio. Learn more and get a free trial license at altair.com/inspire-studio.
Tutorials
Altair's Vision for Conceptual Design in Automotive
Imagine being able to bridge the gap between aerodynamics and the design studio to understand the performance of vehicle design ideas as early as the sketch pad, using the skills and resources you already have in-house.
In this two-minute video Paul Steward discusses Altair’s vision for collaboration between the design studio and aerodynamics.
Testimonial
The C123 Process - A Rapid Simulation Process to Optimise the Weight & Performance Attributes of a BIW Structure
Dr. Stuart Bates, Concept Technical Specialist at Altair presents at the UK e-Mobility seminar 2019. Rapid Exploration of Packaging Alternatives e.g. Battery System Layout, Battery Frame / BIW Integration. Developing Balance Design (Weight vs Attribute Performance), Target Setting using Simulation.
Conference Presentations
Altair Inspire Studio Product Overview
Altair Inspire Studio is the new solution for innovative designers, architects, and digital artists to create, evaluate and visualize designs faster than ever before. With unrivaled flexibility and precision, its unique construction history feature along with multiple modeling techniques empowers users throughout the creative process.
Product Overview Videos
Ideate, Design and Manufacture a 3D-printed Pen
A short workflow video illustrating the journey of a design idea, from the initial sketches to additive manufacturing, utilizing Altair Inspire Studio and Print3D. The final metal 3D-printing of the pen has been done in collaboration with SLM Solutions.
Conference Presentations
Inspire Studio Introduction
In this course you will have the opportunity to learn about Inspire Studio Modules contained within the course provide detailed descriptions of the tools and workflows within Inspire Studio. You will also have the opportunity to watch demonstrations and perform hands on exercises throughout the modules.
eLearning
Use Freehand Sketches to Design a Chair with Inspire Studio
This Inspire Studio workflow video shows how freehand sketches can be easily imported in the software and used as the starting point to design a chair.
Use Cases
Constraint-based Technical Sketching in Inspire Studio
This Inspire Studio workflow video shows how 2D technical sketches can be leveraged to design parametric parts in a chair design.
Use Cases
Use PolyNURBS for Rapid Styling of a Vehicle
This Inspire Studio workflow video shows how PolyNURBS technology can be used to easily and rapidly generate the initial body style of a vehicle.
Use Cases
Construction History in Inspire Studio
This Inspire Studio Workflow video illustrates an example of how construction history can be leveraged to quickly apply modifications to an existent model, like changing the number of spokes in a bike wheel without rebuilding the model.
Use Cases
Altair Inspire Studio Datasheet
Altair Inspire Studio is a new software solution that enables designers, architects, and digital artists to create, evaluate and visualize design ideas faster than ever before.
Brochures
Inspire Studio - Getting Started
Overview of Tool Ribbon, Tool-belt, World Browser, Preferences, and Help.
Quick Start
Inspire Studio - Workspace
Overview of Pan, Rotate, Zoom, Navi-Cube, Camera Setup/Editing, Modeling windows, and View Modes.
Quick Start
Inspire Studio - Modeling
Overview of Creation Mode, Edit Mode, Guide Bar, and Exit tool.
Quick Start
Inspire Render - Rendering
Overview of Materials, Environments, and Darkroom.
Quick Start